AFRICA

Sumary

This topic had two parts the first one was the exposition that showed the general aspects of Africa. Also we saw how the colonialism and post colonialism contribute with the actual situation of poorness and war of african´s citizens. We learned about Sierra Leone and the conflict with diamonds they have, there the guerrillas figth with the civil population, and that is a fact of why there exist the illegal trade of diamonds because of corrupt governments, trade of weapons and terrorism. Those issues are the ones that made the diamonds called “blood diamonds”.

Lorenza Fontana showed us the problem in Nigeria about the oil from the multinationals corporations existing in the Delta Niger region. We saw all the aspects influenced with a background that brings out all the aspects that made this not fair for the citizens. We saw how in front of this inequallytu came up the the movement MEND and we analyzed all the implications of them in the oil conflict.

Question

¿Why Africa being one of the richest continets in the wold in resources continue being the poorest one?
Since ever we listen and learned about Africa´s natural resources and all the mineral resources they had there. But also we listen about the war, terrorism and poorness they live in. This is contradictory and had no sence, because you can´t understand why a conuntry with that amount of resources live in the worts conditions of poverty.

But all of that have an explication,and it came from the colonialism period were the Europeans took advantage on African people. First some writter said that colonialism was a system witch functioned well in the interest of the metropoles. Also there are so much writters who said that Europeans did to much for Africans and this is complety false because the only thing Africans learn from Europeans were the words opression, explotaition and slavery.

The Europeans said that they built railroads, schools, hospitals and the like, but they did´nt noticed that the sum of these was extremely small in comparison with the damage and pain they when throug later.

That is why we can say Africa has everything to be a rich country but the develped countries never wanted to be like that, and they had been doing everything to take out the ritchness of Africa making the African population suffer and die because of the injustice of the richest ones.

Bibliography
ROY RICHARD GRINKER, CHRISTOPHER BURGHARD STEINER. Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation. Publicado por Blackwell Publishing, 1997

J WODDIS. Africa: The Roots of Revolt. 1962 , Citadel Press.